The campaign continues: More Guardian op-eds slam Israel
The Guardian campaign against Israel continues. And before proceeding, let us now be clear. This is not journalism. This does not arise out of the great tradition of British or American political commentary. The tradition in which it stands is the tradition of political propaganda. This is a clearly coordinated, carefully planned, institutionalised campaign of deligitimisation and denigration. In simple terms, it is a hate campaign. It is a hate campaign waged by the Guardian newspaper — the newspaper of Britain’s political cultural establishment – against the Middle East’s only liberal democracy, the world’s only Jewish state.
Unless I missed something (I was travelling), Tuesday provided a rare instance of a day when the Guardian failed to produce an anti-Israeli commentary. The following two days have provided ample opportunity to make amends with a piece on Wednesday by Seth Freedman condemning the security barrier and a piece today addressing (read ‘distorting’) key events associated with Israel’s founding.
Today’s offering is by the paper’s Middle East Editor, Ian Black. It pegs off a decision by the Israeli education ministry to ban use of the word “Nakba” in textbooks for Israeli Arabs. Nakba –meaning “disaster” — is the Palestinian term for the founding of the state of Israel and the events which followed it.
Now, I do not know of a state in the world which would willingly and enthusiastically use public funds to promote the idea that its own founding constituted a disaster. It is true that the previous Israeli government did allow one Arab language textbook to use the term as a concession to Palestinian demands, however prejudiced. However, the decision of the current administration to change tack is hardly something which should merit condemnation.
But this is not the only issue that vexes Black. As a sign of Israeli perfidy, he puts it together with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s decision to send to Israeli embassies abroad for wider circulation a picture of the war time Palestinian leader — Haj Amin al-Husseini — meeting Hitler in Berlin.
In Black’s view Lieberman has thus plumbed “new depths of cynicism”. Many “anti-colonial nationalist leaders” of that era associated themselves with the Nazis in order to ally themselves with an enemy of Britain. Don’t blame Husseini, and by association the Palestinians, for doing what, in the circumstances, was quite understandable. For Husseini, it was only about stopping Jews from emigrating to Palestine.
This is an appalling distortion of history. In fact, Husseini was a friend and admirer of Hitler and an active participant in spreading anti-Semitic hatred through his radio braodcasts for the Third Reich. He not only advocated genocide. He participated in it in the former Yugoslovia and he was a wanted war criminal after the war ended. To portary his association as a mere marriage of convenience is quite outrageous.
But, of course, these easily verifiable facts about the Palestinian leader at the time would spoil the image of the Palestinians as innocent victims and would illustrate the extent and depth of the anti-Semitism inside Palestinian political culture. That image must therefore be airbrushed out of history. Truly dreadful stuff.
To read the full article, click here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/23/israel-palestine-history-nakba
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July 23rd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Many thanks for your lucidity, your righteousness and your sanity.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:30 am
There is indeed a rabid sickness permiating its way up from the depths of hatred and out in to the public arena via our media (such as Al Guuardian and Al Beeb.
However, the real shame is the lack of reporting about the role the media has played in the rise of anti-semitism since the start of the year.
The media, and especially the BBC, went out of its way to point out that not all muslims were terrorists after the 7/7 attrocity, yet what is most notible is the active participation of the media in spreading lies and blood libels since January WITHOUT so much as a “not all jews are killers” mantra that they took after the London bombings.
Although you can understand why the MSM wouldnt talk about such complicity…if they did, we would be left in absolutely no doubt as to the role the MSM plays in stirring up hatred against Israel and Jews.
Mailman
ps. You know what. If the Jews own all the worlds media outlets, then this surely must rank as the worst purchase in the history of the planet! :)